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One who worships images.

An adorer; a great admirer. Jonson was an idolater of the ancients. Bp. Hurd.

re. Were but my soul as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate. Denham. Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain. Shak. Immaculate conception (R. C. Ch.), the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin. -- Im*mac"u*late*ly, adv. -- Im*mac"u*late*ness, n.…

ce; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim. Worshipers, who not only immolate to them [the deities] the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women. Boyle.

To cover with plates; to sheathe; as, to implate a ship with iron.

ith articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words. Music which is inarticulate poesy. Dryden.

Not articulated; not jointed or connected by a joint.

In an inarticulate manner. Hammond.

The state or quality of being inarticulate.

To inclose completely, as in a membrane.

Confined or inclosed in a castle.

Having unequal sides; unsymmetrical; unequal-sided.

Blown in; inflated. Chaucer.

Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas.

One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.

Having the form of a funnel; pertaining to an infundibulum. Infundibulate Bryozoa (Zoöl.),a group of marine Bryozoa having a circular arrangement of the tentacles upon the disk.

To insert a foreign bud into; as, to inoculate a tree.

Having no operculum; -- said of certain gastropod shells.

To intercommunicate; to interjoin. The several monthly divisions of the journal may inosculate, but not the several volumes. De Quincey.

To accuse. [Obs.] Donne.